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Friday 6/16/23 at 8:45 PM Central TCM is airing the cult classic, “Barbarella”. Hilarious! Is as if a 12 year old wrote a SciFi space ****. Following that at 10:30, “Earth Girls Are Easy”. A “B” movie but the net result is much better than that. A handful of relatively unknown stars at the time...

Is about 5-10 minutes to change a tubeless motorcycle tire on my NoMar. Still do dirtbike tires on a stand that holds the wheel waist high, but the miracle which makes the NoMar work on tubeless is in how solidly it holds the rim. Once the rim is held the long bar on the right easily levers...

There are special cleaners to run through stinky front-loaders.

That is common in north Alabama during rush hour. Any time the road gets busy people park in the left lane rather than deal with merging and exiting traffic in the right lane.

That is legal in Tennessee.

I have driven several different ACC vehicles, none would pace a car in the adjacent lane. And none would pace a car in front as close as many drive manually. For decades I have noticed many in the left lane seem to be afraid to pass, they come up and pace in my blind spot before creeping ahead...

Where do you get "40W"? I've never seen it. Why do you use a winter rated oil in hot Texas? I have seen "40 weight". That is not the same as 40W.

The 2016 Beta 430RS is out in the yard so I could access the NoMar tire machine. The poor 2003 KTM 450 EXC was ridden last year but with over 400 hard hours is in need of internal attention. I fear when started after several years it had low oil pressure on the cam chain tensioner it slipped a...

Hydrostatic transmissions need periodic fluid change. The low end hydrostatic transmissions do not specify a service interval, just replace the entire transmission. The common Hydro-Gear EZT for example. The oil is serviceable (is common 20W-50 motor oil) but only the newest production has a...

Since 2016 I have mounted 22 new tires on my Yamaha FJR 1300, and at least that many for friends. When the premium is about $100/tire to buy at the dealer and a 2-3 hours inconvenience, this is a winner. Can ride the tire to cords and decide to mount new late Saturday night before a ride on Sunday.

I saw my deer from a long ways off thinking, “no way it will come near” but it did. In the pics posted above ABS was fully engaged.

I recognized her thrill the first time she depressed the thumb throttle. Remembered first time I drove grandmother’s riding lawn mower. Is surprising it took 55 years to buy a riding mower of my own. Meanwhile have had numerous motorcycles.

May I suggest a half twist in the flat tie strap will keep it from flapping in the wind? Learned this with many thousands of miles carrying dirtbikes on trailers. Looks like you have such a twist in the strap over the top on the right of the trailer (left in pic).

It may well be the strap is only intended to hold the cover on whatever (HVAC?) and the load is secured to the trailer elsewhere. My new heat pump arrived in the back of a pickup truck with something similar covering the top. Thought it curious but realized the cover prevented the top fan from...

Me. A deer I met one day.

Welcome to the joys of motorcycling!

I don't know about dryer sheets but washing with Downey fabric softener works against chiggers on my property.

Have used both. The 18" is significantly more powerful than the 14"/16" (which were the same but for the bar). No matter your use I do not believe you will ever regret the 18". I borrowed a 16" before buying the 18" and am glad I only borrowed it.

We have covered that already. The S140 under discussion is exactly the same model at the box stores as at the John Deere dealers. You are correct in that JD has made special box-store cheapened versions but those have differing model numbers. However dealers are required to honor warranty...

Downey fabric softener in the washer seems to repel ticks and chiggers from your clothes.

Weeks behind on editing means you are in the new house? Congratulations!

“Winter” “W” in SAE/API viscosity means the viscosity grade represents the cold temperature the oil flow. As I said earlier 5W is -30°C. Pretty darn cold. ”weight” or “wt” represents operating temperature viscosity. I posted a link to the reference earlier but here it is again...

Language is a mathematical equation. If you use the wrong variable names you get the wrong answer. If you ask for 50 weight and get 50W then the monkey behind the counter lacks the intellect or understanding of his job.

I didn't compare 5W to 50W. I compared 5W at its rating temperature to 40 not-W at its rating temperature. The 5W is molasses at that temperature. 50W is not 50-weight but an oil which pours down to the same temperature as a 50-weight oil would flow. 50W and 50-weight are totally different...

When I had my current driveway doubled in width the contractor looked at me funny when I insisted on using (3) 8' 18" concrete culverts. "We only need 2!" Nope, 2 downstream will exit 3' beyond the new edge of the driveway. Original builder used only 2 for the other half but upstream side is...

Of course not! 10' is way too short! Throw a 200' chain over it and pull it down with a tractor!

Actually the opposite. At the rating temperatures the "5" is molasses while the "40" is pretty darn thin. The 5 is assigned based on the lowest temperature they think a reasonably designed engine could pump oil to bearings. 5W is -30°C.

If only we could teach trees on the woods to make windows! Certain to be a better product than Windows!

Agree. Built to sell on price. Just consider the number of lawn tractors sitting beside the road free for the taking. Mower deck disintegrated. Found repair to cost about the same as a new mower. We are starting to see "welded mower decks" on the box store products. That doesn't mean they are...

Some manufactures "say" that but there is no industry performance test for which a "synthetic" motor oil must pass to be sold as synthetic. Prove me wrong. "Everybody knows" synthetic is better! But there is no legal or regulatory performance standard requiring synthetic to be "better". The...

The W number only indicates how cold it can be for the oil to still flow. It doesn't say anything about viscosity between the cold temperature ant 100°C other than it must not have an inflection point. The oil must progress to thinner viscosity as temperature rises, but this curve is not...

A "window" maker! Ain't Technology Great!

Yes, that is what I was trying to say. If it is a special box store version then it will have a different model number. That these have the same number indicates they are the same machine.

Am guessing the O.P. has purchased his mower by now. But I'd suggest others look hard at the multitude of zero-turn mowers and independent dealers. Bad Boy mowers appear to be of very high quality and good value. Not as cheap as box store mowers but built better. Country Clipper is another...

The box store versions have different model numbers. My concern over purchasing from Lowes or Home Depot is warranty service. I know an independent dealer of EGo was not happy when EGo started referring him for warranty work of product sold by Home Depot. Worse yet, he had to buy the part out...

They tell me that means there is at least a 6" water line under. Nothing like that within mile of my property. They say its 2" or 3" at my meter.

I guess it is a matter of trust. Of lost trust for not honoring the landlord's wishes to use aluminum nails. We still have our landlord's trust.

How is this any different from the many flammable household chemicals of modern life? The difference is slapdash Chinese Engineering. Smart phones and laptops don't go busting into flames. Might be Made in China but not designed there.

Our timber-managing landlord has stated aluminum nails are acceptable. That they use aluminum nails also. We have need of posting "No Trespassing" signs. Then for trail markers we are allowed to use staple guns.

Again that is not what I said. I said you are liable for additional damages, damages over and above what would have occurred had you not had a spike sticking out of the back of your vehicle. You are trying to pretend I said your drawbar makes you responsible for all damages when getting rear-ended.

No, but a sharp lawyer will proportion the damage due to the extra you contributed with your spike extending from beyond the bumper.

But your drawbar goring the vehicle caused damage which would not be but for your drawbar.

I want a canon for my barn!

Is likely one of those things akin to fog/auxiliary lights. Strict NHTSA/DOT/CFR says anything beyond certified low beams qualifies as high beams. But the regs are worded so bad one must make a career of interpreting. Guaranteed employment for bureaucrat lawyers. Furthermore high beams are...

One "levels" one's truck when it is a poser-truck and not a truck. Have only once seen a lifted truck actually used where the lift could have helped but the problem was the rear differential was no higher than stock. Only the body of the truck was higher.

Knew a semi driver who also rode dirtbikes tied a 230 pound dirtbike in the middle of a flatbed one day, just like that. He did it just to be silly.

Where do I go to apply for my 30% Federal Tax Credit for installing a gas pump at my farm?

I see facts. Inconvenient facts. H2 ICE is less than half the efficiency of an H2 fuel cell. And the H2 ICE emits NOx. Not to mention H2 production by hydrolysis requires at least 3x the electrical power per mile as a BEV would consume. Leaving the only economical means of production of H2 is...

I have 3 natural gas lines cutting diagonally right through the middle of my property. 30" and 36". I wish I received rent, but I knew they were there when I bought and the only thing that bothers me is I can't get NG for my home.

Nobody. Because dead PV panels are a rich source of resources. Paper and plastics are more expensive to recycle than new. Aluminum cans are precious. As are lead-acid starter batteries.

By golly you are right! Can't run an EV for 24 hours/day for 2 weeks! EVs are totally crap! Nobody should ever use an EV for anything because an EV can not do everything! Be sure to surrender your battery powered laptop, cellphone, DeWalt power tools ... because we have proven them to be useless!

So what? Lets say one only gets 20 years of service? The 200W (degraded) output for 4 hours/day 365 days/year for 20 years is 5840 kWh. The reason Capitalists will recycle PV panels is to recover materials which would cost more to dig out of the ground than can be found in the claimed 6 million...

We are State Capitalists. Facebook did not build in Huntsville without government concessions. Toyota did not build in Huntsville without government concessions. Polaris did not build in Huntsville without government concessions. Tesla did not take over an abandoned GM-Toyota automobile...

... and to increase capacity.

You had me up until that statement. Rare Earths are not rare but are simply named that to fool the gullible. The USA has more than enough known reserves, plus unknown reserves are found every day. The problem is our government will not allow these resources to be used no matter we can mine and...

Such memes are created by people who can not balance their checkbook. They skip over simple realities and assume a PV panel with 20 year performance warranty will be dead unusable 20 years and 1 day later. The fact is while it might have been a 240W panel and is only producing 200W, that it is...

I drive a Tesla which many think I would automatically agree with the above. The problem is existing ICE automobiles are 100 to 1000 times cleaner than those of the 1960s. The problem cited above no longer exists. The problem that exists today is that No Government Program Has Ever Been...

The tolerances for oil seals on shafts is amazingly broad. The seat where the seal is pressed is perhaps tighter. A seal will hold pretty well with a bit of free play in the shaft. Designers of seals know this is going to occur. The quality of the material used to make the seal has a lot to do...

Nope. Rural. No building codes, only a state septic permit requirement. As such I also don't have to pay 50% to a PV specialist to "design" my system.

If you play the stock market then you need to learn about "diversification", and I don't mean DEI. Being reliant on a single source of electrical power is not a good idea if you have options. My new house will have 15-20kW of PV ground mounted panels from day one. And some as of yet...

The current flowing through electrical devices in series must be the same for each device. So if one panel underperforms all panels in the series (called "string" in PV solar documents) must fall to the the same output. A PV inverter must optimize current for maximum power conversion. The...

The USA has never had a shortage of lithium resources or any "Rare" Earth. The only problem is government will not allow the recovery or processing of such, no matter we can mine and refine those resources every bit as clean as anything else we do. These markets have been gifted to others by...

I crack up how you assume all solar panels come from China.

Ditto. Ford's management saw the writing on the wall and sold most all factories and real estate in the years prior when the market was good and buyers none the wiser. GM and Chrysler continued to act recklessly knowing they would get a bailout.

We have not lived in a Free Market Capitalist Economy for some time. No big player acts without massive government accommodations. Locally Toyota built an engine plant with massive accommodation from Huntsville and Alabama. Then Toyota expanded the plant with more accommodation from Huntsville...

Agree the MN 41 month number is reasonable. orezok is in the Mojave Desert, CA, and has much longer daylight hours per day than MN. Hence his same-sized system might produce 53 MWh during the same period.

Click the up arrow next to the citation at the top of the quote to see the message to which a reply was written. The O.P. has already documented his excellent (even conservative) math demonstrating the SolarEdge monitoring app's totals are perfectly reasonable.

The math is excellent, even conservative. 7.5kW for 25 kWh/day is only a 3.3 solar-hours/day exposure. Much of the country gets 4-5 solar-hours/day.

And a BMW, KTM, Husaberg, Tesla, Beta, Yamaha, Honda, ... But you promised the government would fund it for me.

I have 100 acres. How can I get this "taxpayer funding" to pay for my PV project?

How dare you bring facts and experience to the internet! Al Gore is rolling over in his grave!

Real Estate agents will say anything to talk someone into selling their property for less than it is worth so the agent gets the sale. TVA is a government agency where nobody knows anything. If you are on a TVA grid and there is not a factory at the solar field then TVA is buying the power...

Not my cats. They pretend to ignore me when I'm here but gone for a day or two they get clingy on return.

Meh. Put the right people together and they'll figure out how hay production in the USA is killing children in Rhodesia. You are not paying attention. I have repeatedly said fossil fuels are not subsidized. Once again creative accounting has been used to falsify a claim which agrees with the...

I know 8% is in the range of a sales tax, and that even the article cited says 92% of their claim is made up. Tax deductions are not targeted subsidies.

Fake news. The article states: Explicit subsidies accounted for only 8 percent of the total. The remaining 92 percent were implicit subsidies, which took the form of tax breaks or, to a much larger degree, health and environmental damages that were not priced into the cost of fossil fuels...

Meh. Solar Panels 101: A Guide to Solar Energy and Systems wisely says: “Don’t sweat too much about panel efficiency. The only real benefit to more efficient panels is that they fit more solar in less space.”

Yes, I have said that here many times. The only honest metric of resource consumption is the Almighty Dollar. No man works for free. No man voluntarily surrenders resources for less than true value. Costs accumulate with stage of production until reaching the final destination. Egghead...

No way. Doubling every 2-3 years and only up to 19%? https://documents.unboundsolar.com/media/imMuoXxG-Black20Frame20MSE20PERC2072-cell2C2040mm20Specifications.pdf

That is after a 50% installer markup. The parts for a quality 10 kW grid tie system is about $17,000 before any tax credits. check UnboundSolar.com and other places.

Is an example of totalitarian rule.

If only the people building PV solar farms knew that! But wait, they are building PV solar farms anyway. And after building one they build another, and another. Perhaps the people actually building and running the things know more than you do? Facebook has built a server farm on 1000 acres in...

In most places if to be grid-tie the utility company has requirements it be "designed" by a graduate of NABCEP industry propaganda lobbyists. And then the electrician probably rightly so to protect his reputation will insist on going over every wire and electrical connection you have made...

You clearly did not and still do not because you still believe battery backup on grid tie PV is forbidden.

Amateur radio operator for 40 years. What would you like to know about RF?

Would take several hundred mini-cells on telephone poles to equal one 200' tower. How is it you like many hundred telephone poles and do not like one cell towers?

Tesla makes exactly what you describe. Costs about double that of generic PV panels so they don't do very many. https://www.tesla.com/solarroof

The parts for that is only $20k. The installer has marked up labor and "system design" by $15k because with the ignorance of the market they can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

No no no. Grid tied systems may absolutely have battery backup. You pasted a bunch of words below that you have no comprehension of what it says. I do not believe you understood anything above. Simple grid tie inverters require a 60 Hz pilot signal to match their output. This is a safety...

So was I.

I wonder how good of a fertilizer Bud Light might be? Should be a ready supply, cheap.

Your question is myopic. Doesn't matter "how much power". What matters is, "How much does it cost?" The cost in dollars is the only accurate metric of resource consumption. If the cost of production is less than the value of what is produced, then the endeavor will succeed.

And not only that but dead birds falling from the sky can fertilize the soil!

Snow is one of the best known black bodies. Snow is its own worst enemy against melting in the sun. About the only energy it reflects is in our visible light spectrum, absorbs most everything else. "Blanket of snow" literally helps keep the ground warm.

Actually they do, but there are only a couple. The utility uses excess electrical power to pump water up to a mountain reservoir. Then when power is needed that water is used to drive turbines connected to generators. All you need is a tall mountain with a reservoir on top.

Name one. Cite your source.

Power lines are less efficient underground. There is a field surrounding the wire which earth damps.

What happens when/if a tornado rips through a gas-fired electric power plant? How is one different from the other?

Why is it for you to decide what I do with my land?

Agree, the government is totally in the wrong here.

That is the problem with non-Tesla DC charging stations. The operators bought low-bid hardware which has proven unreliable. Tesla Superchargers are highly reliable. Electrify America (the golden child of VW diesel fines) is not.

What object "flying through the air" in a tornado is not lethal? Plenty of tornado stories of golf balls from driving ranges being found driven through concrete walls.

Then if only we had a free market the market forces would make a correction. But if we have a government dictated market who picks winners and losers on some arbitrary value system, then we get stuck with a "solution" which is always wrong. Is wrong to say the "solution" is an EV. Is wrong to...

Why is that anyone's business but the land owner? You have no right to demand that I produce crops on my land, or that I produce the crops you desire. Else, there is no private property.

That is only because that market is gifted to China by our government. We have all the minerals and not-so-rare Rare Earths, but are forbidden to use the cleanest mining and refining processes known to utilize.

So, one could argue the solar farm is preserving soil underneath for future generations. Your problem is that you expect others to honor your economic value system. The magic behind any healthy economic system is that one party values something more than another, and somehow makes that added...

I would agree wind farms are are nuisance. Have you ever stood outside amongst operating wind turbines? North of Elwood, IN, is the largest wind farm I know of. Park beside the road and step out of the car. The incessant low level hum would drive me mad. Madder.

"Good land" is taken out of one production and placed in a higher value production. If there wasn't more money in it the land owner would not be doing it.

If you get parity pricing for grid tie then you are being subsidized by a Progressive Left Public Service Commision. Parity pricing is common in California, is where you get paid the same price to put a kWh in the grid as they charge you to take one out. When Congress finally passed a law...

One thing I valued when purchasing 572 acres was how I had cell service everywhere I checked on the property but in one hollow. There are some places I can see the 300'-ish tower a mile and a half away.

To get the PV tax credit one must owe at least that much in that year. The Federal government does not pay, but counts the PV tax credit toward what you owe that year. If you get at $5200 tax credit but only owe $3000 then you only get $3000 of credit, the $2200 remainder is lost, no carry-over.

That is brilliant. So rather than one eyesore you forced the tower company to build 10 eyesores.

Why will their property value go to nearly nothing? The solar farm will spoil the view they did not own?

If you think lithium fires are bad just wait until "the hydrogen revolution".

The problem with lithium fires is the cells provide their own oxygen for combustion. You can't "snuff it out". Massive volumes of water consume heat util hopefully below the combustion temperature.

There are 2 types of countries: Those who use the metric system, and Those who have put a man on the moon.

Early in the battery revolution I looked at Stihl and was turned off in how many different incompatible batteries their tools used.

Of course, but that costs extra and the rest of the car looked like heck. But the wheels were big and shiny!

Some years ago neighbor’s kid put 24” or bigger wheels with tires that looked to be little thicker than rubber bands on a Caprice. Tire looked like some fork lift tires I have seen. Lifted like a poser truck to make room for the hoops. Not much latter the car needed a transmission. Overworked...

Yes, that is an honest comparison. That is where the money is to drive innovation. But because the commercial money is (right or wrong) now on low profile tires F1 is on their 2nd season of low profile tires. I corner as fast and am as happy with steering on my vehicles with 60 and 65 series...

Most I have seen were NiCAD or NiMH. My early 18V Worx trimmer batteries were poor. Used 18650 cells. For other reasons I gave it to a needy friend, ”Here are 4 batteries, two are weak but run 10 minutes. When you are ready we can rebuild for $25 or less each.” $&*#(@‘ threw it all away...

My 18” EGo chainsaw cuts green 6” maple and apple like butter.

I had a tire fail when I was visiting in Indiana. 255/45-19, not your average Walmart tire size. South Bend was 65 miles away so I ordered (4) new tires to be installed at the warehouse. Found the production line for mounting tires to be interesting. They had people lift the vehicle using (4)...

A Tesla Model 3 LR will take 250 miles of charge in 35 minutes, or from 30 to 130 miles in about 10 minutes. The fastest way to go a long distance is to start with a relatively high charge on an overnight L2 connection then run it down to 30-50 miles remaining and only add about 150 miles (what...

Yup. But you know it happens. My point is that "parts fail and just because a part failed on a battery electric device doesn't mean all battery electric devices are pending failures." There is a lot of cheap junk out there, not unique to battery electric tools. Used to be a lot more cheap junk...

Golly, as if I have never seen a ZTR with a seized engine! Any modest size mower shop has a few dead engines laying around used for parts before being sold for scrap.

My EGo will trim for about an hour on 2.5Ah battery, admit this is longer than I can hold it. If you have an assortment of Ryobi batteries then I suspect you could trim for hours and hours.

I have been trying to verify the unfounded claim HF’s Bauer uses same cells (not just same size) as Dewalt. Probably use 18650 like Dewalt, but that is not “same cells, just as good.” Others have tested “Dewalt compatible” replacement batteries and found all comers lacking. I was glad to learn...

Many large buyers haul their own supplies. Believe they have better control over receiving this way. Local Frito-Lay maintains a fleet of Gruman-style panel vans for deliveries. Each is driven by a semi-independent employee who "owns" (even pays for) his route. Not sure of the terms but the...

I am still using a 10 year old battery in my primary string trimmer, and a 7 year old battery in my EGo 56v self-propelled lawn mower. Yup, “batteries are expensive.”

How does one get potatoes to the factory? Or cardboard boxes? There is plenty of heavy hauling. However I will agree the finished product trailers Frito-Lay uses often have only one axle, and a low belly for more interior volume. Suggesting the product carried is less dense than it might be.

No, he did not. He seems to have ignored electric posts but he did not specify gas. Re-read the first post.

I do not see that in the problem description. Quite the contrary. A battery-electric is optimal for “semi-light and seasonal”.

The first half is high power concentrated laughs. Unlike anything before or since. The profanities were funny and not at all offensive to any but boomeranged against the white settlers who spoke. I thought it fell apart at the end. Still, one of the best movies of all time.

I love good old American coal. Proud to drive a coal-fired automobile. Sometimes it is nuclear! Citation required. An 18650 has hundreds of manufacturers. No two are alike.

Discount Tire will repair anyone's tire for free. And rotate tires for free. They want you to come back when it is time to buy new tires. Darn right I am! Bought 8 tires so far. Am delighted to live only 3 miles from one. Previously 80 miles.

A caution about battery electric power tools: marketing would like you to focus on voltage. There is a difference between 12V and 20V but not really that big. 56v vs 80v? Nah. The important thing to do for comparison is multiply voltage times amp-hours to get the Watt-hours the battery actually...

Replying to myself: 49 CFR § 571.138 - Standard No. 138; Tire pressure monitoring systems. says about a screen down from the top (bold and italics added): Reading like a DoD engineer the above says an indication must occur when the above conditions are met, but doesn't say the indication can...

The chickens played basketball? You should have been able to make good money touring with those chickens!

So, what means was used to clear the acreage? Your original post mentioned Bradford Pears, the cockroach of trees. And desire not to disturb the soil. Those two desires are contradictory as Bradford Pear roots are survivors, need to be dug up and burned or dependably killed. Would also think...

The last time I was in Sam's was the tire department. Waited in line 35 minutes to talk to the one person at the counter. Watched the shop floor for lack of anything else to do. 5 employees walking around aimlessly doing nothing the whole time. No air wrenches hammering, nothing. 3 cars on...

That intersection doesn't fail the TPMS sensor, the vehicle ECU fails to see it a period of time or given distance then it fails. Is not an "Missed the previous 30 second update!" So that intersection is the same time/distance from home or work. You somehow know it is the new sensor failing...

NHTSA/DOT spec is an unbelievable 75% of nominal tire pressure. So if spec is 40 PSI then the warning light illuminates at 30 PSI.

You claim to know Dewalt and HF's Bauer brands buy the same model cells from the same source? There is a huge discrepancy in the durability of lithium-ion battery cells. Can't and won't claim Dewalt is buying the good stuff. And certainly will never say anything foolish like, "you get what you...

That was then. Look up "power valve". The exhaust port timing is controlled in every modern 2-stroke dirtbike the past 25 years. Lots of discussion on KTM forums as to the most desirable spring to control the opening for different conditions. Beta adjusts theirs with a threaded shaft making...

A lower AKI (not "octane") is acceptable at higher elevations because the issue is not compression ratio but the compression chamber pressure. A lowly Prius has a 13:1 mechanical compression ratio but with variable valve timing and throttle-by-wire happily runs on 87 AKI. The ECU manages load...

Well, a 17A new load is not trivial. Not sure why the OP didn't start with powering the pump off the tractor. Or perhaps a pump driven by the PTO? The common mistake being repeated here is in believing electrical power is sourced from the battery. The battery is nothing but a buffer of...

The difference between 5W- and 10W- is trivial on a motorcycle. At 70°F and above they are essentially the same. If you clutch slipped then it had more to do with the specific oil and nothing to do with 5W. Many automotive oils simply slip in the wet plate clutches of motorcycles. The only...

You can actually rent one of those? A forest mulcher? The liability insurance on one of those things is about 35% to 50% of the cost of hiring someone to clear land. Hiring one is about $300/hour. If you can find someone in the next 3 months.

You are too smart to be tricked by battery-electric outdoor tools! Too smart to even consider. I found the EGo mower was much easier to use than my Snapper Ninja. Lighter. Quieter. Never had to take a gas can to the gas station to stink up the trunk of my car. Never had an oil change. Air...

Sadly 7.5Ah batteries are about $400 each. Consider one of these for $1100 which includes 2 more 7.5Ah batteries, and the 2 you have are useful on it when not snow blowing. Also it will charge (slowly) all 4 batteries. https://www.amazon.com/POWER-Portable-Power-Station-Compliant/dp/B07P9DP5WL/...

By and large I agree. There are some jewels. current: Blue Bloods Ghosts Young Sheldon recent: Phineas & Ferb Longmire Futurama In 2006 Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather" was made into a 3 hour movie for a non-BBC British TV channel. Lots of fun but very deep into what it is to be human, what with...

I watched a B&W Philco console with broken channel changing knob. We used a cheap screwdriver to get a bite on something inside then counted clicks until a picture appeared. Only had VHF. Then we moved up to a 19" color "portable" Sears TV!

I was without electricity for a couple hours short of 7 days in April 2011 when tornadoes ravaged the south. Fortunately that week after the tornadoes the weather was wonderful, low humidity (unusual) and about 70°F. I got by with an EU2000 to power the TV and refrigerator. Had to drive 20...

Agree it is important to check on covenants, building codes, and restrictions. That lot has a fire hydrant, power, and internet on the street. Government did not do that, a developer did. Before you close you need to know what covenants are in the deed.

I started with a Japanese motorcycle in 1975, a used Dodge in 1976, then a Japanese automobile in 1978. The Dodge used SAE so I borrowed when I needed tools. But only bought metric. Knew Sears was going to h in a handbasket when they quit carrying separate metric and SAE tool kits, all were...

I have wanted a simple vernier caliper but SAE were marked in 1/128" and I wanted decimal. To get decimal one had to buy metric. Unless one didn't mind spending $100+, which was beyond the task intended.

Before I'd say 1.866 or 1.867 I'd like to know the dial caliper was zeroed before measurement started. A Harbor Freight digital will require a battery every month seemingly even if not used. A Mitutoyo will go years. But cost more than the batteries the HF used. I bought a high quality...

You don't want to pour it on the ground and light the fire. That is what the monkeys did in Ohio. A flame on a pool of diesel burns very rich, lots of soot. The waste oil furnace suggestion earlier sounds best to me. Someone with one of those would be delighted to be given 30 gallons of...

Is an idiot driver that you are celebrating.

Look at the tire tracks. Could possibly have gone up that embankment.

Yup, so rare you have to cite news articles and not actual implementations. EDN is a trade magazine promoting things companies say they are doing, but often never do because demand does not support. Did you bother to read the Tesla citation? No portable charging mentioned. Some Tesla service...

I’m not at all offended. I‘m amused by people who think charging an EV beside the road is funny, how they think that is any different from filling a car with a gas can. By and large for an EV in the USA a flatbed tow truck is dispatched in such situations. Is cheaper and faster. A mobile...

And such is so rare you had to find an old fuzzy picture from Europe to promote the fiction.

I got lost in the automatic gate threads several years ago, but I too need one or more.

See how well it is tied? How it is not tied? I suspect it was originally loaded forward.

Heat pumps do not make 100°F hot air the way furnaces do. Heat pump needs large volumes of air which will be raised in temperature but never blows scalding hot.

But often it does. It can not when it costs $200/hr to dig a ditch.

If there was a splice in the frame rail then there would be a splint and that area would be the strongest part of the frame.

And a motorcycle/scooter hanging far out on the lever. I've been poo-poo'ed for observing how long the lever of a hitch carrier with motorcycle. "Hitch receiver is rated to carry 800 pounds! Motorcycle and carrier only weighs 350!" But it it on a 2-3' lever arm, not the 8" of a drawbar.

Those are tractor eggs! I see tractors laying those eggs in open fields all summer! And then haul them into their nests to hatch!

Am pretty sure they all hold split-window Corvettes!

I have only owned this one for 4 years. Is not in the condition it can be rehabbed. Am not going to demolish. Cattle still use it. Is settling but fairly solid. Called one of the old barn salvage operations and was told if easy access to the site and the wood was good they would take it and...

Mine:

Gee, I've never seen an ICE catch fire! Not!

Those sneaky Capitalists will try anything! Have you forgotten NiCAD and NiMH already? Oh and lead-acid?

Read the author's biography. He is a professional writer. No technical training. Doesn't provide any specifics only generally claims batteries do poorly in cold and "You won’t have to spend extra money or effort to operate a hydrogen fuel cells." This is just another example of the poor state...

Somebody else will pick up the series.

Fuel cells don't work cold. Think about making water out of H2 and atmospheric oxygen? Frozen water will not flow. Another consideration is H2 under pressure will drop well below freezing when vented to a pressure that can be used in the fuel cell. LNG vehicles have this same problem, requiring...

Iridium spark plugs are precious. PV electricity to split water into H2 and O2 would drive a battery EV 3x farther than a fuel cell vehicle.

Tubes are good for low pressure but tubeless is not going to come off easily at higher pressures. That said, ATVs run 3 PSI tubeless with few issues.

One can always drive over a tubeless tire with another vehicle to break the bead off the rim. I have a mounting stand from No-Mar and have mounted about 60 tubeless motorcycle tires. It has a bead breaker which uses leverage.

I was admiring how 2 axles were pulling that thing. Then 2 axles were not enough to stop it. Then saw there was a pusher too. Can't help wonder if the pusher was still pushing when the puller was braking?

The bead seat on the rim is different for tubeless than for tube. Usually it is wider and has a very small rounded ridge on the inner surface.

I was disappointed. Was very disappointed at Daniel Craig's "southern" accent, it was awful.

Picture was taken in a race. Had just come up a very steep 10' embankment and was concentrating on keeping my driven wheel in contact with the slick ground. The top was slick wet compacted clay. The photographer was there capturing spectacular jumps and falls. Flying up the embankment was fine...

Nothing about 4WD alters the ability to wheelie other than weight distribution. Plenty of wheelies at monster truck shows. Rode with a guy on one of these (AWD dirtbike) who had no trouble with anything: AWD Motorcycles – Christini All Wheel Drive Motorcycles

BMW is very fond of such braking systems. Even so a good rider is better than BMW's systems. Plus the things are so darn expensive when they break that most owners replumb the system to delete, creating a conventional non-power assist motorcycle braking system. Simple ABS is fine on...

And you totally missed my sarcastic comment about temperature.

Of course. Have you never "popped a wheelie"? Not much of one but the only pic I have:

I agree, discharge can be a very bad thing. I received a "mandatory Federal Ag survey" recently that asked an awful lot of intrusive questions about irrigation. Local dirtbike/ATV riding club leases 9,000 acres to ride and has to deal with TDEC whose primary concern with us is silt running in...

Well it is Michigan who is known for regulating everything. But worse, as of December 30 the Biden Administration has re-invoked the Waters Of The United States Rule (WOTUS) revoked by Trump created by Obama. Basically using the Clean Waters Act to claim Federal jurisdiction over every drop of...

You said your ICE was dependable in context bragging an EV was not.

My understanding is the appliances are installed by the same people whether natural gas or propane. The problem is not if a leak, but when a leak. And has to do with getting the gas/oxygen mix to sustain combustion. Is apparently harder to do with the cocktail of multiple gasses in natural gas...

So, Tesla Model S has been in production for 10 years and we finally hear of one which will not charge at 19°F. You conclude, "EVs are not dependable" based on sample of 1. I've known plenty of ICE to fail to start at 70°F. My EV is set to "be ready" at 6:00AM. It is charged every morning and...

Same for propane. It puddles until it rises high enough to be noticed and then somewhere between floor and ceiling is at optimal ratio for combustion. Natural gas mixes easier with air and is apparently leaner when detected. Put 1/2" of gasoline in a soup can then start throwing lit matches in...

Of course you "expect it to" but if it is broken it won't. If your truck is broken then does that prove all ICE trucks are defective and unsuitable in the cold? My 2013 Tesla Model S 85 about the same day as the viral media report. Might notice the red "battery heat" icon indicating the battery...

That "report" was one guy. After 10 years of production, one Tesla failed to charge at a blistering 19°F. The media copy/pasted the article but did not comprehend the car was saying, "waiting on the battery to warm." Apparently the battery heater was broken on this car. Its a good thing ICE...

Thats pretty common when companies bill $35k for a couple of man-days of work to install $15k of components. Eventually customers figure out the racket.